Leaders on both sides of the aisle continue to use fear, scarcity, and bigotry to shape critical asylum policies. As people of faith, we know another way is not only possible but essential. Not every tragedy caused by injustice makes national news, but each matter because their lives and their communities matter. We know that these deaths could have been prevented if our asylum policies were designed to heal, not harm, seekers of safety & community. We need to tell our leaders that each day that we continue with Title 42 is a moral failure.

Months after most COVID-19 public health restrictions in the US have been lifted, our government is still using the pandemic as justification for refusing, detaining, and expelling asylum-seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border. Under the CDC’s Title 42 program, almost all asylum-seeking families and individuals are being denied their human and legal right to seek safety. The CDC has already acted to revoke Title 42 because it is not contributing to public health, but a conservative judge has kept it in place through a legal battle. Now, anti-immigrant political leaders want to ensure Title 42 continues to control migration and restrict asylum at the border, and are pushing amendments on Title 42 through Congress.

Can't make the webinar or action hour? Call your members of Congress anytime on July 19 to demand an end to Title 42 using our easy click-to-call tool!

Here's a major update: the House passed the Moratorium language as part of the Infrastructure Bond Bill that's very close to our original bill (S2030/H1905). The Senate passed an inadequate version of the Moratorium that would not stop the women's prison project. Now the Conference Committee will decide the final language that goes to the Governor. Check out this video of Senator Comerford speaking about our bill on the floor. 

It's HISTORIC that we've managed to move legislation to the finish line in JUST ONE session. People power is how we got here and people power is how we will win. 

We're at the most important phase of the campaign: pressuring the Infrastructure Bond Bill Conference Committee to pass the HOUSE LANGUAGE so we can stop the new women's prison:

1) Call the six Conference Committee members and tell them to put the House version of the Moratorium in the final bill.

2) Call your own State Rep and Senator and tell them to ask the Infrastructure Bond Bill Committee members to put the House version of the Moratorium in the final bill.

Click here for a toolkit to help you make these calls. 

3) We are going HARD on our ground game so we can get as many constituents as possible to tell Conference Committee members how important it is to pass the HOUSE version of the Moratorium.